Kazuto Kirigaya is a fictional character who appears in the anime Sword Art Online. He is more commonly known by his in-game name, Kirito. He was chosen to be one of the one thousand beta testers for the closed beta of Sword Art Online, the first ever Virtual Reality Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game for the NerveGear, and later joined the official version of the game. He thus became one of the 10,000 players who were trapped in Sword Art Online. Papercraft designed and created by Paperized Crafts.